Category: Preservation

I’m pleased to report that the New York State Board for Historic Preservation unanimously approved the nomination of Bayard Rustin’s home at 340 West 28th Street in the Penn South complex for Landmark status today. We believe this move is one of the first landmark designations to recognize the importance of an African American gay man’s home. Following this move,…

The James Merrill House is on the docket for consideration at the upcoming National Historic Landmark Committee Meeting! Poet James Merrill lived here with his male lover for many years. As a poet, James Merrill valued, cultivated and renewed poetry’s traditional practices, and at the same time was boldly experimental. He himself described his poems as…

In recognition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LBGT) Pride Month, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the Henry Gerber House in Chicago, Illinois, has been designated a National Historic Landmark, becoming the nation’s second LGBT related property to achieve such recognition. Once the residence of noted gay rights activist Henry…

We are saddened to hear the news from San Diego preservationist Chuck Kaminski that San Diego’s Michels-Carrey House was razed by the developer at the end of the day on Friday while a landmarking application was still pending. Chuck Kaminski shared an opportunity for any San Diego area residents concerned about the demolition to learn more and ask questions of John La Raia from…

On February 12, 2015 the National Historic Landmarks Committee, chaired by Dr. Stephen Pitti of Yale University, unanimously approved the nomination of the Henry Gerber House at 1710 North Crilly Court, Chicago, Illinois to move forward as a National Historic Landmark (NHL). The nomination goes next to the National Park Service Advisory Board in May…

Rainbow Heritage Network strongly supports acceptance of the Henry Gerber home at 1710 North Crilly Court, Chicago, IL as a National Historic Landmark (NHL). The site has extraordinary civil rights significance as the place where the first chartered group was organized to advocate for the civil rights of homosexuals. The organization lasted from 1924 to…